General Reading List
Books for Parents/Professionals
Books for Children
Books for Teens
Our staff has compiled the following list of books to aid you in healing, in understanding, and to help you or someone you love cope with the suicide loss of a loved one.
For books for Parents & Professional, Teens or Children, please see the above links for book recommendations under those categories.
On Suicide & Grief
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, by Kay Redfield Jamison
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No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of a Loved One, by Carla Fine
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Dying To Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After A Suicide, by Beverly Cobaine
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Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide, by Christopher Lukas
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My Son…My Son…: A Guide to Healing After Death, Loss, or Suicide, by Iris Bolton
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When A Man Faces Grief/A Man You Know Is Grieving, by James E. Miller
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A Grief Like No Other: Surviving the Violent Loss of Someone You Love, by Kathleen O’Hara
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A New Normal: Learning to Live with Grief and Loss, by Darlene Cross MS MFT
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The Construction of Meaning Following Parental Suicide: Grief of children following parental suicide, by Dorothy Ratnarajah
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The Forgotten Mourners: Sibling Survivors of Suicide, by John’s Sister
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When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter, by Judith R. Bernstein, Ph.D.
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The Worst Loss: How Families Heal from the Death of a Child, by Barbara D. Rosof
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Life After the Death of My Son: What I’m Learning, by Dennis L. Apple
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A Broken Heart Still Beats: after Your Child Dies, by Anne McCracken
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The Mourning Book: The Most Comprehensive Resource Offering Practical and Compassionate Advice on Coping With All Aspects of Death & Dying, by Helen Fitzgerald
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A Guide For The Bereaved Survivor, by Robert Baugher, Ph. D.
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After Suicide: A Ray of Hope for Those Left Behind, by E. Betsy Ross
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After The Darkest Hour, The Sun Will Shine Again: A parent’s guide to coping with the loss of a child, by Elizabeth Mehren
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After The Death Of A Child, by Ann K. Finkbeiner
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Aftershock: Help, Hope and Healing in the Wake of Suicide, by Candy Neely Arrington
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An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, by Kay Redfield Jamison
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Have you found another book helpful? Let us know and we will add it to our list.
Please send an email to Michele@SOSLsd.org
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